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Events

= January–March =

  • January 25 – Siamese King Naresuan, in combat on elephant back, kills Burmese Crown Prince Mingyi Swa on Monday, Moon 2 Waning day 2, Year of the Dragon, Chulasakarat 954, reckoned as corresponding to January 25, 1593, of the Gregorian calendar, and commemorated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day.{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thailand-drops-charges-against-historian-facts-duel-180967881/#:~:text=In%201593%2C%20after%20a%20bitter,liberation%20story%20to%20the%20country |title=Thailand Drops Charges Against Historian Who Questioned the Facts Around Historic 16th-Century Duel |last=Katz |first=Brigit |date=2018 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |access-date=March 13, 2023}}
  • January 27 – The Roman Inquisition opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
  • February 2 – Battle of Piątek: Polish forces led by Janusz Ostrogski are victorious.{{cite book|author=Paweł Jasienica|title=The Commonwealth of Both Nations: The Silver Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7YmAQAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=American Institute of Polish Culture|isbn=978-0-87052-394-6|page=156|language=en}}
  • February 8 – Siege of Pyongyang (1593): A Japanese invasion is defeated in Pyongyang by a combined force of Korean and Ming troops.Kenneth M. Swope, A Dragon's Head and a Serpent's Tail: Ming China and the First Great East Asian War, 1592–1598 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) p.156
  • February 12 – Battle of Haengju: Korea defeats Japan.{{cite book|author1=Kenneth B. Lee|author2=Kong-bok Yi|title=Korea and East Asia: The Story of a Phoenix|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XrZQs-6KswMC&pg=PA102|year=1997|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-95823-7|pages=102|language=en}}
  • March 7 (February 25 Old Style) – The Uppsala Synod discontinues; the Liturgical Struggle between the Swedish Reformation and Counter-Reformation ends in Sweden.
  • March 14 – The Pi Day, giving the most digits of pi when written in mm/dd/yyyy format, (i.e. 3.141593, 3/14/1593) occurs, as realized later. During 1593 Flemish mathematician Adriaan van Roomen is working on the most accurate calculation of pi up to that time and arrives at 16 decimal places of pi using the polygon approximation method), and publishes it in his treatise Ideae mathematicae pars prima (Antverpiae, 1593)."[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927718/?page=7|Medicine and Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century]", by David Eugene Smith, in Annals of Medical History (July 1917) p.131

= April–June =

  • April 10 – The English Parliament enacts a law for the first military disability pension in British history, titled "An Acte for relief of Soudiours". The Act states that "forasmuch as it is agreeable with Christian Charity Policy and the Honour of our Nation, that such as have since the 25th day of March 1588, adventured their lives and lost their limbs or disabled their bodies, or shall hereafter adventure the lives, lose their limbs or disable their bodies, in defence and service of Her Majesty and the State, should at their return be relieved and rewarded to the end that they may reap the fruit of their good deservings, and others may be encouraged to perform like endeavors..."Papers Illustrative of the Origin and Early History of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea (Antiposi Verlag, 2023, reprint of 1872) p.5
  • April 18 – Anglo-Spanish War: Naval Battle of Blaye in the Gironde estuary sees a Spanish victory over the blockading English fleet, allowing the Spanish to relieve the French Catholic garrison of Blaye.{{cite book|first=Jean-Claude|last=Castex|title=Dictionnaire des Batailles navales franco-anglaises|publisher=Les Éditions du Phare-Ouest|year=2012|isbn=9782921668194|page=59}}
  • After April – William Shakespeare's poem Venus and Adonis probably becomes his first published work, printed in London from his own manuscript. In his lifetime it will be his most frequently reprinted work: at least nine times.{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
  • May 5 – "Dutch church libel" bills posted in London threaten Protestant refugees from France and the Netherlands, alluding to Christopher Marlowe's plays.
  • May 12 – English dramatist Thomas Kyd is arrested over the "Dutch church libel". "Atheist" literature found in his home is claimed to be Marlowe's.{{cite journal |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/ELRv3n1p44 |title=Marlowe, Kyd, and the Dutch Church Libel |last=Freeman |first=Arthur |journal=English Literary Renaissance |date=1973 |volume=3 |pages=44–52 |publisher=University of Chicago |doi=10.1086/ELRv3n1p44 |s2cid=151720064 |access-date=March 13, 2023|url-access=subscription }}
  • May 18 – A warrant for the arrest of Christopher Marlowe is issued. On May 20 he presents himself to the Privy Council.
  • May 30 – Christopher Marlowe is stabbed to death in a dispute over a bill at a lodging house in Deptford.{{cite book|first=Leslie|last=Hotson|author-link=John Leslie Hotson|title=The Death of Christopher Marlowe|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.75347|location=London|publisher=Nonesuch Press|year=1925}}
  • June 7 – Battle of Salbertrand in Piedmont: Victory of François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières, over the Spanish of Rodrigue Alvarez of Toledo, allies of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy.{{cite book|first=Théodore|last=Bèze|title=Correspondance. Tome XXXIV, 1593|publisher=Librairie Droz|year=2010|isbn=9782600314688|page=165}}
  • June 22 – Battle of Sisak in Croatia: The Habsburgs defeat the Ottoman Empire.{{cite book|author=Branka Magaš|title=Croatia Through History: The Making of a European State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OY5pAAAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Saqi|isbn=978-0-86356-775-9|page=95}}

= July–September =

  • July 25 – As he promised in January, Henry IV of France abjures Protestantism at the Basilica of Saint-Denis.{{cite book|first=Nicolas|last=Le Roux|title=La Faveur du Roi: Mignons et courtisans au temps des derniers valois (vers 1547–vers 1589)|date=May 13, 2013|publisher=Éditions Champ Vallon|isbn=9782876737518}} Legend attributes to him the saying Paris vaut bien une messe ("Paris is well worth a mass").{{cite book|first=Daniel|last=Lacotte|title=Les Mots célèbres de l'histoire|publisher=Albin Michel|year=2016|isbn=9782226379887}}
  • July 29 – The Long War breaks out in Hungary between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans.
  • August 3 – Poland's council of nobles, the Sejm, grants permission to King Sigismund III Vasa and his wife, Queen consort Anne, to travel to Sweden to claim the Swedish crown.
  • August 24 – After losing the Battle of Sisak two months earlier, the Ottoman Empire attacks the Austrian fortress guarding the city and breaks through its walls with cannon fire, forcing its surrender on August 30.
  • September 10 – With no fortress or troops to defend Croatia, Ottoman General Mehmed Pasha captures the city of Sisak. Selânikî Mustafa Efendi, Tarih-i Selânikî (Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1999)

= October–December =

= Date unknown =

Births

=January–June=

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=July–December=

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Deaths

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